From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 30 00:42:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA23675 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 00:42:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA23594; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 00:42:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id RAA07620; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 17:12:02 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980630171202.D1880@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 17:12:02 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Clusters, Distributed File Systems and FreeBSD References: <199806220450.MAA15275@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199806220450.MAA15275@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com>; from Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth on Mon, Jun 22, 1998 at 12:50:45PM +0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 22 June 1998 at 12:50:45 +0800, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote: > > Is anyone doing work on distributed filesystems (where files can be spread > across > 1 node) on FreeBSD? The reason I'm interested is because I'm working > for a Seismic DP company, and we use clusters all over the place (mainly IBM > SP2 systems). They share filesystems using PIOFS, where each node has a 4GB > disk shared out out. These are combined together and seen as one ginormous fs. I'm planning to put support for multi-node plexes into Vinum. This is more remote replication than distributed file systems, of course. If you or anybody else have any suggestions or wishes, please let me know. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message